41.   It will take several weeks to distribute the tickets.

42.   Knight also announced that UPS, the American delivery service company, had been dropped from the role of distributing Olympic tickets to Australian customers.

43.   No tickets will be distributed abroad until mid-May, leaving consulates less than a month to do their paperwork.

44.   Soccer officials stopped distributing free tickets to the clubs and expelled them from their traditional meeting halls at stadiums.

45.   SLOC also has not decided how the tickets will be distributed.

46.   Texas distributed tickets on a priority basis to contributors, season ticket holders and lettermen, then the general public.

47.   That saves local organizers the embarrassment of distributing tickets at game venues, perhaps causing chaos.

48.   The remaining tickets will be distributed to sponsors, the media and European and world soccer federations.

49.   The rest would be allocated for immediate use to cover blowouts in sponsorship revenue and the increased cost of selling and distributing tickets.

50.   The tickets were distributed by lottery.